Month: March 2009

Theatre

NINAGAWA Twelfth Night

I went to see Kabuki on the other day. The story was based on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”. My impression was, unique Kabuki (in a good meaning). There were more British audience than I thought, and the atmosphere was completely like “away”! At first, three children were on the stage and sang western style song with cembalo, and Orsino wearing Japanese style costume said “Shakespeare lines”… it was extremely weird! Some British people were giggling, and I thought the whole play might be crap… But don’t underestimate Kabuki actors! They started to capture audience’s feeling little by little. Well…Kikunosuke acted Viola […]

Diary, Life in London

Business Link

As I wrote before, I was challenging a business course. And it successfully finished when I handed in the assignment! But it took so long as I was not familiar with the subject. But it was such a good practice for me. Well, I found a website called “business link” during research in regard to law. This is a site to support entrepreneurs run by government, and I found these “tools” useful. For example, “organiser”. If you answer some simple questions, depending on your situation (like “still just an idea…”, “need to know more detail” etc.), the site creates online […]

Theatre

Carmen

I went to see Carmen last week being invited by my friend. It was the first time I went to Royal Albert Hall, which I always wanted to visit as everyone recommends! It looks beautiful from outside, but you should definitely go inside! It was exactly the same image as I used to imagine “European theatre”. It was amazing. I wish I could seat which looks “place for rich people” (=box seat) one day… It was also the first time I saw Carmen as live performance, I know a lot of its music and I enjoyed it so much. Carmen, […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London

Kinetica Art Fair

went to Kinetica art fair on the other day. It was really interesting to see interactive arts, or dynamic arts. This is the place. It’s difficult to explain with words, so pictures…. There are some interactive arts, like getting information from real world and convert it into graphics etc… Or something which moves reacting human’s move. Or something….unknown, but just getting closer to you. And collaboration with other arts. And robots. And…moving stuff. …So, anyway, I enjoyed it so much!